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Christian's quiet in bed (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

copt

'christian's' is the definition.
(member of the Coptic Church, a Christian church)

'quiet in bed' is the wordplay.
'quiet' becomes 'p' (music symbol for 'piano', ie soft or quiet).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'bed' becomes 'cot' (cot is a type of bed).
'p' going inside 'cot' is 'COPT'.

(Other definitions for copt that I've seen before include "Member of ancient Egyptian church" , "Early Christian" , "Christian in mainly Moslem country" , "Egyptian Christian Church member" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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